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Month: October 2013

  • Owl Suit

    Owl Suit

    Zip. Click. Ready. Snug in the feather down you rise into the night sky, Owl eyes searching the foggy banks below. Somewhere out there Mr Fox is sleeping, Somewhere out there, Sleeping off the rich feast which he came across last Sunday, Hunger put off for a time: Travels in a Middle land Wolves, Dreams, Transformations…

  • I’m on the right track (again) and falling into the open mouth of the beast

      Hunger is all there is, the open devouring mouth of hunger, incessant, never ending hunger, demon mouth, the mouth from hell. Snake swimming, snake in boat, had it fallen from the distracted grip of an angel? Falling, perhaps a necessary humiliation, is, of course, prior to working out how to stand up again, to…

  • Snake on Board

Categories (2024) are:

  • ATELIER Work – about-creative-work (in all mediums: text-drawing-sounds-image etc)
  • CLIMATE Action – indications-and-contra-indications
  • DAWDLING – walking-pausing-to-wonder-wandering
  • IN Conversation – companionship-and-connections
  • LA Communita –participatory-collaborative-artivism
  • OTHER than Human – animate-and-inanimate-terrestrial-kin
  • PARANOID Readings – violence-and-fundamental-perversions
  • POLITICAL Readings – mobilisations-affect-polarisations
  • REPARATIVE Readings – inspiring-healing-restorative
  • SHADOW Readings – speculative-and-not-yet-visible-thinking
  • STYLE Readings – scales-and-familiarities
  • TONITE at the Coliseum – live-experiences-performance
  • YOGI (‘Not This-Not That’) – meditation-bhakti-consciousness


Different WORDSTALL Categories in the past supported the mainly experimental personal writing in posts. The previous list of Category headings was: Anti-gravity Surgery / Atelier / Catastrophe Games / Echo Effects / Exodus / Fundamental Perversions / Hitting the Potholes / Holy Fool-Hero / In Conversation / Old Men Traveling / On the Street / Out in the Wilderness / Over and Beyond / Tonite at the Coliseum. Some of these still persist or recur as Tag key-words.

The even earlier Category headings for the walkingtalkingwriting blog (2006-2012) have been forgotten, but can be explored if desired via the long tail of monthly posts for those years here.